iPad iPad storage maxed by "System" in iOS 11 Beta

Just recently on iOS 11 beta 3, I received a notification that my 256GB iPad storage was nearing full. After viewing the storage management panel in settings, "System" is taking up nearly 248Gb. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue and found a resolution?

FWIW I just upgraded to beta 4 to see if it was a beta issue that has been resolved but nothing changed. Appreciate any help here.

Interesting. I've been running it for about the past 30-45 minutes, but I haven't seen any change. About how long did you wait before it corrected? Right now my iPad is pretty unusable with the frequent ipad full notifications.

Interesting. I've been running it for about the past 30-45 minutes, but I haven't seen any change. About how long did you wait before it corrected? Right now my iPad is pretty unusable with the frequent ipad full notifications.

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I went to the storage screen and it was at 50 gb of system. I think I probably waited 2 or 3 minutes and backed out and came back in to the storage screen and let it update and I had just a couple GB in system.

I went to the storage screen and it was at 50 gb of system. I think I probably waited 2 or 3 minutes and backed out and came back in to the storage screen and let it update and I had just a couple GB in system.

This just happened to me with the latest beta. Waited a while and storage actually increased a bit. Rebooted with no reduction in storage used. Finally I killed all open apps and rebooted and freed up about 2gb of storage.

Yep when you install a beta you should expect problems so this isn’t a moan per se but before I installed it I always had around 2GB spare storage.

Since I put Beta 6 on it I’m almost maxed out all the time, usually around 15.7 GB.

I try all the usual tricks (trying to download a too-large film from iTunes etc, deleting unnecessary apps, removing all music and just streaming instead, having optimising photos rather than the originals etc) but the space is disappearing. Sometimes it fluctuates down to around 15.1 but after a while fills back up.

I try rebooting it too which sometimes helps a fraction but isn’t really a convenient workaround.

I've gone down to 8.81Gb (16Gb iPhone 5s) from 12.2. However, happened as I was waiting for download, just deleted a couple of old photos and deleted out of deleted items, free space jumped by a gb but the photos were only about 100b in size

Installing the latest beta only fixed it for me and storage went down to normal levels. I did not do the backup and restore because it was late last night when I updated, if usage goes up I’ll try that.

Installing the latest beta only fixed it for me and storage went down to normal levels. I did not do the backup and restore because it was late last night when I updated, if usage goes up I’ll try that.

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Hey all,

So I’ve only just starting getting the exact same thing happening on my iP6+ (16gb) after updating when iOS11 was released last week..

I’ve done the suggested method above but it didn’t seem to help as the System quickly reached the limit again once was the process was finished.

This is a common issue and is not related to iOS11 as I've had it since I can remember. Only temporary fix is backup/restore but that lasts only a while. It seems iOS is awful and garbage collection and cleaning. Since that makes your device full and probably pushes you to upgrade next time to a higher capacity device Apple has no interest in fixing this.

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